Massacred by a crazed groom in a fury over the collapse of his marriage plans, the bodies of his fiancée and nine of her relatives are taken away to a morgue.

The family were all shot in the face with an AK-47, allegedly by 25-year-old suspect, Gul Ahmad Saeed, as they slept in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Saeed, who has since gone on the run, was already a fugitive wanted for the murder of his parents and two elder brothers six months earlier because they had postponed his wedding.

His family had refused to accept a demand by the father of his then-fiancée, 24-year-old Naveeda, who is also his cousin, for a residential plot as a dowry settlement.

Massacre: Pakistani mourners gather around the bodies of relatives allegedly killed by a snubbed groom who was furious that his family had refused to accept a dowry demand by the father of his then-fiancée

Gulzar Khan, a police official in Charsadda district, said that after murdering members of his own direct family, Saeed became enraged at his prospective in-laws for making the demand.

He then carried out a pre-dawn attack on Sunday at the home of the uncle who had raised opposition to the marriage and demanded the wedding be cancelled.

'The uncle was being very indecisive about the wedding which infuriated Gul Ahmad,' said police officer Mohammad Jamil.